Zero-count Detector.

Health Phys

Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY 12237.

Published: February 2025


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We developed a statistical theory of zero-count-detector (ZCD), which is defined as a zero-class Poisson under conditions outlined in this paper. ZCD is often encountered in the studies of rare events in physics, health physics, and many other fields where counting of events occurs. We found no acceptable solution to ZCD in classical statistics and affirmed the need for the Bayesian statistics. Several uniform and reference priors were studied, and we derived Bayesian posteriors, point estimates, and upper limits. It was shown that the maximum-entropy prior, containing the most information, resulted in the smallest bias and the lowest risk, making it the most admissible and acceptable among the priors studied. We also investigated application of zero-inflated Poisson and Negative-binomial distributions to ZCD. It was shown using Bayesian marginalization that, under limited information, these distributions reduce to the Poisson distribution.

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